"Air quotes"?

[Rachel McKee]

In my PhD dissertation on Footing Shifts in ASL Lectures ( Rachel Locker McKee, 1992, UCLA), - section 3.7- I describe this usage as a metalinguistic framing device to mark a forthcoming utterance as originating from another speaker, and as something 'other than ASL' in form.  I have glossed the sign as QUOTE.

        Rachel McKee
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> From:         Nassira Nicola
> Reply To:     For the discussion of linguistics and signed languages.
> Sent:         15 13MayMay 2003 03 2:35 AM
> To:   SLLING-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA
> Subject:           "Air quotes"?
> 
> So, on a lighter note . . .
> 
> I was curious (ok, baffled) - what is the preferred gloss for the ASL sign
> roughly corresponding to "air quotes"?  In other contexts, I've seen it
> glossed as TITLE and ISSUE, but when it follows a string of signed discourse
> which is deliberately and self-consciously "Englishy," how would y'all gloss
> it?
> 
> (Example: "SHE WORK WHERE? NATIONAL CENTER ON DEAF  -NESS air-quote" - where
> the air-quote seems to serve as an acknowledgment that the signer would not
> ordinarily sign such literal English, especially not "-NESS"...)
> 
> 
> Thanks,  :c)
> 
> 
> Nassira Nicola
> Harvard University Department of Linguistics ('05)
> nicola at fas.harvard.edu
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